Deborah Barnum (email: books@bygonebooksvermont.com)
is a former law librarian, now a bookseller of fine and collectible
books, the Regional Coordinator for the JASNA Vermont Region, and an
inveterate reader and collector of bibliographies.

This Bibliography has five sections:

Austen Editions: original works, under Austen if no extensive annotations or editing
is involved, otherwise under the editor’s name

Austen Circle: original works/editions by Austen family members and friends

Studies: biographical, critical, and interpretive works

Dissertations: a select, not exhaustive list of works specifically on Austen

Baker, William. “Jane Austen Once More.”
Studies in the Novel 39.3 (2007): 357-67. A review of various Austen-related titles.

Bakshi, Kaustav. “‘How Many People’s Happiness Were in His Guardianship!’ A Postcolonial Reading of
the Representation of Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.”
Journal of the Department of English (Calcutta, India) 34.1-2 (2007-08): 129-42.

“Collecting Jane: As Pride and Prejudice is Named as the Book Britons Can’t Live Without, and as
Becoming Jane is Released, Rare Offers an Austen Collector’s Guide.”
Rare Book Review 370 (2007): 12-13.

Leitch, Thomas M. Film Adaptation and Its Discontents:
From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007. A number of lengthy references to film adaptations of Jane Austen.

1. Style: the Bibliography follows the MLA 7th
edition with one major exception: the medium qualifier is added
only for non-print
titles, i.e. Web, Film, CD, DVD, etc. Alphabetization follows
the NISO rules rather than MLA: a blank space comes before a
number or a letter in filing: eg., Le Faye comes before Leal,
rather than letter-by-letter.

2. Cross-references are used for works in essay
collections or anthologies to minimize repetition: the citation
refers to the author / editor and page numbers only; the full
citation is under the author or editor.

3. Annotations are included only for those
entries where title alone is not self-explanatory.

4. Reprint editions: the past few years
have seen an inordinate number of reprints of older editions and
critical works and biographies, as well as an increased number of
books available electronically. At this point Editor Susan
Allen Ford and I agree that all cannot possibly be listed—we
will only see an increase in such works as the reprint publishers,
POD suppliers, and ebook companies continue their efforts to make
such works available. I make note of this phenomenon and
encourage you to search online for older titles you might be looking
for to see if they are available in these newer formats and also
alert you that what might look like a new work may actually be a
reprint of an older work, and perhaps less expensive in its original
edition.

By example I have put in this 2007 Bibliography the citation to the reprint of
Jane Austen and Her Times 1775-1817,
by G. E. Mitton, originally published in 1905 and reprinted in 2007
by Barnes & Noble [see under Studies].

5. Paperback reprints: these will be
included in the annual bibliography only if published four or more
years after the original edition.

6. US / UK publication: as a number of works
are published in the US and the UK in different years, an effort will
be made to include each publication in its publication year, with
variations in titles noted.

6. Popular Culture: this category includes
sequels, continuations, adaptations (such as plays or graphic
novels), films, merchandise, etc. As there are a number of
works that are self-published in this area, I have listed those that
are readily available online and show a title and copyright page and
an ISBN number. Those having no place of publication or
publisher noted are cited with “[Author], date” for the
imprint.

7. Kindle / ebooks: if a work is an ebook
only, it will not be
cited in the bibliography. This policy will be revisited as the
ebook publication format becomes more popular.

8. Book reviews: a review of a work on
Jane Austen is generally not cited unless it is a substantive essay
in its own right.